allen frost library

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Before he went any further,
Sanford thought of the mermaid. He stopped at a table set up on the sidewalk
under an iron sunflower. A bead of water dripped onto him, off the wide petal
above.

He smiled at the seller and she
gave him a pen and a ribbon of blue paper. He thought for a little bit. Carts
went by, people were talking, a couple laughed, a girl chased a dog past, then
he wrote the words to fill the paper up.

“Could you have this sent to the
Mermaid Café?” he asked. He put a couple old looking silver coins in her hand
and she nodded.

He stood there, watched her
scroll the paper into a roll to fit in the little tube tied to the carrier
pigeon. The bird flapped itself importantly and lifted off her hands into the
sky. There were so many lines flying laundry up above that Sanford lost sight
of it behind a wet purple shirt.

Friday, February 9, 2018

I just sent the latest Good Deed Rain book
off to the printer. HOMELESS SUTRA is
4 adventures: featuring the return of Sylvan
Moore, a flying monk, a water salesman,
and a guardian rabbit. The book will be
published near end of this month. The cover
painting is by Laura Vasyutynska who also
illustrated DIFFERENT PLANET, my sci-fi
book. More soon.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

I don't know why, but out of the blue
I was thinking about The Flying Nun
TV show. For some reason I thought
Sally Field had magical powers to fly.
After doing some research, tracking
down the original paperback book, The 15th Pelican, I'm surprised to find
that's not the case at all. It was all
scientific, based on weight, and lift
and aerodynamics. In other words,
anyone can fly given the right
conditions.